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There was another thing Tex McCrary didn't want: to be known merely as beauteous Jinx Falkenburg's husband. Last week he fixed that one too, by getting Columbia Pictures to release Jinx from her movie contract. (She had to promise to say nothing against Columbia in the two years her contract had to run. "That spiked an article she was doing for Collier's,'" said Tex. "She was going to say she'd graduated from the movies, where she had made straight...
...McCrarys now inhabit a guest house on the Jock Whitney estate at Manhasset, L.I. While Tex learns the magazine business, ex-Model Jinx will write, have a baby, "go into a play next season," play tennis again-in that order...
Outside of the presidential palace, Miguelito is less filial, more dashing. When Hollywood starlets like Jinx Falkenburg and Jacqueline Dalya trip into town, he entertains them with gay parties, sends them perfume and jeweled trinkets...
...world's best golfer, the Los Angeles Open tourney was always a pesky stumbling block. Byron Nelson had never won it, actually finished out of the money (worse than 16th) five years ago. In his jinx tourney last week, played on the country's third toughest course, Perfectionist Nelson slipped on an early 18-inch putt, blamed wet turf, then rolled flawlessly home with a winning 284. Nelson's most likely challenger was not present: a hit-'em-a-mile amateur, Army Lieutenant Gary Middlecoff, who burned up the fairways while on furlough last fall...
These unfortunate, though timely, lapses from form may, or may not, constitute a "jinx." They are exceptions to the scores of sports figures who have found TIME'S cover no handicap (e.g., Joe Louis, Jack Dempsey, Helen Wills, "Red" Grange, "Bobby" Jones, Mickey Cochrane, Yachtsman Harold Stirling ("Mike") Vanderbilt, Bullfighter Juan Belmonte). It is worth noting, however, that TIME took no chances with its first sports cover: Horseman Stephan ("Laddie") Sanford (March 31, 1923). His horse (Sergeant Murphy) had already won the Grand National before the cover appeared...